Category Archives: Entertainment & Quiz Shows

The Exclusives on ITV2 – journos compete, only Simon Cowell is nowhere to be seen.

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ITV2 has given journalism the Apprentice treatment in a bid to find Britain’s Next Top Journo – someone who’s Got Britain’s Talent and the X-Factor all rolled into one. What’s not to like about a programme that gives six pre-packaged … Continue reading

Dragons’ Den series nine on BBC 2 – we need a hero to slay the Dragons’… Den?

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In the good old days of myth and magic, story-tellers would sit around roaring fires telling tales of brave heroic deeds; of heroes who had slain devilish dragons and with much reverence they would recant the legends of these daring … Continue reading

ITV’s ‘Show Me the Funny’ is a comedy talent show with a distinct lack of… comedy? – Review by Zenya Smith.

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Admittedly I was never going to be a great fan of this show, purely down to the choice of presenter. For me Jason Manford has always appeared to be riding on the coat tails of Peter Kay’s ‘isn’t it funny living up north’ … Continue reading

Apprentice Final 2011 – Susan Ma ninja kicks other contestants in the face?

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So, as much as I’ve denigrated The Apprentice or more to the point bleeding bloody Alan Sugar there is still the matter of my bet with my brother. Twelve weeks ago, in true Apprentice fashion, my brother and I had our … Continue reading

The Apprentice final looms: what have we learnt so far this series?

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1. Alan Sugar has clearly taken some form of deportment lessons, not bloody elocution mind, but bleeding deportment as now when he gives his little pep talks and guidelines to the tasks he looks like a Teddy Ruxpin marionette. Each … Continue reading

Katie Hopkins the former loser of The Apprentice seeks to join brand “idiot”!

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This damn woman, Katie Hopkins, seems to appear on the TV from time to time like a personified Glen Close, Kathy Bates type figure and embodiment of every other fictional female sociopath. Of course the difference is Katie Hopkins is real, … Continue reading

Betting on The Apprentice 2011… who will win?

Several weeks ago, in true Apprentice fashion, my brother and I had our teeth bleached white, our ball sacks waxed bare, fitted ourselves out in sharp bespoke suits with incredibly pressed shirts, and finally we pulled our small wheelie suit … Continue reading

Four Rooms on Channel 4 – people, money and stuff!

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Four Rooms is basically a more stylish Dickinson’s Deal without an orange faced lion-man; it stars instead four rich bastard-types who could have easily auditioned for Dragons’ Den. The basic gist is owners of unusual bits of objetdart try to sell their wares … Continue reading

Betting on The Apprentice 2011 – one way to make it more interesting.

In true Apprentice fashion my brother and I have had our teeth bleached white, our ball sacks waxed bare, fitted ourselves out in sharp bespoke suits with incredibly pressed shirts, and finally we have pulled our small wheelie suit cases across London – up escalators and … Continue reading

Where there’s a master there’s an apprentice – The Apprentice 2011.

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Cue elevators, cue wheelie suitcases, cue bespoke suits, dagger-esque countenances and finally, but by no means least cue the Cockney ball buster/Lord of Essex…  Lord Alan “chubby finger” Sugar! Yes, you guessed it, it’s time for another series of The Apprentice, Series 7, … Continue reading